Author: Zach_Wilson
Millions of phone location records feared leaked as one of the biggest data leaks ever may be a whole lot worse
Gravy Analytics is being sued for failing to protect personal data The suit comes after 17TB of records were allegedly stolen from the firm The hack on a data broker has sparked four lawsuits so far A complaint has been filed in the federal court of Northern California outlining allegations…
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DDoS attacks take down game studio servers, causing DayZ and Arma network outages
The company behind Arma and DayZ suffered a disruptive cyberattack Bohemia Interactive game’s servers are inaccessible for days The community is speculating about the causes of the outage If you’re a DayZ or Arma Reforger player, you may have noticed issues connecting to your favorite games these past couple of…
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OpenAI changes ChatGPT o3-mini to work more like DeepSeek-R1, but faces backlash from users
OpenAI has changed the way that its new ChatGPT o3-mini model displays its chain of thought (Cot) to “make it easier for people to understand how the model thinks,” however it has faced an almost immediate backlash from users and accusations that it is copying the way that DeepSeek’s R1…
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Amazon wants to spend $100 billion this year for ‘once in a lifetime’ AI opportunity
Amazon’s last quarter capex was $26.3 billion last quarter, with growth set to continue Company plans to spend big on AI projects in 2025 to keep pace with rivals Microsoft and Google are also spending more on AI Amazon‘s CEO appears to have indirectly revealed the company plans to allocate…
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DOGE wreaked havoc on the government in just one week
Within the past week, Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)-affiliated staffers have gained unprecedented access to sensitive US financial systems with data on millions of Americans, claimed to shut down one federal agency without an act of Congress, and invaded numerous government agencies. They’ve been opposed by…
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This open source tool could save Google, Microsoft, billions by cutting CPU resources by 20% but even small businesses can benefit
Yandex developed and open-sourced Perforator which identifies inefficiencies in applications This in turn allows DevOps and SysOps to optimize applications and reduce infrastructure costs Savings can be billions of dollars for hyperscalers but even SMBs with on-prem servers can benefit Yandex, Russia’s largest tech company, has released an open source…
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